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Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses.

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Hi!

> >Sorry but I'm a little bit confused. I'm dropped in some mails without
> >historic. I see cleanup, coalescence issue and TSO question.
> >What is your main issue? Are you working on gmac4 or 3.x ?
> >Can you refresh a little bit the story please ?
> 
> let me try to do a sum, please Pavel feel free to correct me.
> 
> There are some open points about the tx mitigation schema
> that we are trying to detail and eventually tune or change
> (but keeping the same performance on other user-case).
> 
> In particular, the test case that is raising problem is
> an unicast tx bench.
> I suggested Pavel to tune coalesce (IC bit settings) via
> ethtool and monitor stats but he is getting problems (maybe
> due to lock).
> 
> IIUC problems are mainly on new kernel and not on 4.4 where
> the gmac4 is missing. Please Pavel, could you confirm?

Actually no, it is the other way around. I can get 4.9 to work with
some tuning. 4.4 likes to crash when tx coalesce is enabled with
shorter than 40 msec timeout. (It crashes with default settings, too,
but that takes too long to reproduce.)

> Also there are some other discussion about the lock
> protection on NAPI still under discussion. I have not
> clear if in this case Pavel is getting strange behavior.

Yep, locking is broken in more than one place. I believe I understand
what some problems are. Let me prepare the patches.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-12-02 09:30 +0100
  Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-02 09:50 +0100
    Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-12-02 10:50 +0100
      Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-02 13:40 +0100
        Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-12-02 15:00 +0100
          Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com> - 2016-12-02 15:30 +0100
            Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-12-02 17:10 +0100
              Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-05 13:40 +0100
          Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-05 13:10 +0100
      Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-05 11:40 +0100
        Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. "Lino Sanfilippo" <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> - 2016-12-05 12:50 +0100
          Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-05 23:20 +0100
            Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> - 2016-12-05 23:40 +0100
              Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-05 23:50 +0100
                Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> - 2016-12-06 00:00 +0100
                Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> - 2016-12-06 00:20 +0100
    Aw: Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related  pauses. "Lino Sanfilippo" <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> - 2016-12-02 15:10 +0100
      [RFC] Re: Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related  pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-07 13:40 +0100
        Re: [RFC] Re: Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing  related pauses. Lino Sanfilippo <lsanfil@marvell.com> - 2016-12-07 14:20 +0100
  Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-12-02 09:50 +0100
  Re: stmmac ethernet in kernel 4.9-rc6: coalescing related pauses. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-12-05 13:00 +0100

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